Madison — Gov. Scott Walker on Tuesday embraced a move to ban abortion after 20 weeks after repeatedly declining to spell out where he stood on the issue in last year's re-election campaign.

It is the latest example of Walker downplaying a major issue until after being re-elected and climbing to the top tier of likely 2016 presidential candidates. Walker did not campaign on plans to spin off the University of Wisconsin System as a public authority and now says he will sign so-called right-to-work legislation even though he insisted for years he would keep the measure from reaching his desk.

Wisconsin Right to Life has touted as its top priority legislation that has yet to be introduced that would prevent women from seeking abortions in most cases after 20 weeks.(91)

If Park Bank is liable for not spotting Sujata "Sue" Sachdeva's $34 million embezzlement from Koss Corp. and has to reimburse the company, Koss Chief Executive Michael Koss should also be ordered to personally pay the public company he runs, the bank argues in a new lawsuit.

Grant Thornton, Koss Corp.'s former auditor, should also have to pay a portion of any award that may be ordered, Park Bank argued in the latest twist in a long-running court fight stemming from Sachdeva's massive embezzlement.

"Park Bank denies any and all liability to Koss in this case," the bank said in its action. "Nevertheless, should Park Bank be found liable to Koss (Corp.) and required to pay damages to Koss, in this case, those damages will have been the result of a common liability of Park Bank, Michael Koss and Grant Thornton, thereby entitling Park Bank to (a) contribution from Michael Koss and Grant Thornton."(9)

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And Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan probably have not helped Walker's cause. In post-election interviews, the GOP standard-bearers essentially blamed their loss on an unexpectedly high turnout among young and minority voters. Thus, the partisan motives behind Walker's proposal would be clearer now than ever before.Finally, it is far from certain that Walker will have uniform backing from his party, especially in the state Senate.It seems almost certain that Sen. Dale Schultz, R-Richland Center, for one, will not support it."I find it hard to believe that he'd be willing to support a bill like this which eliminates one of Wisconsin's fine traditions of accessibility for people to exercise their right to vote," says Todd Allbaugh, a legislative aide to Schultz, who was not available for comment on Wednesday.That means the other 17 Republicans in the 33-member

Senate must be united in turning over something that election experts, from municipal clerks to leaders at the Government Accountability Board, overwhelmingly support.

Not only tired poll workers. Walker insulted the many senior citizens who volunteer as poll workers, saving municipalities a lot of money. Many of these senior citizens are experienced poll workers having volunteered for years. They facilitate rather than obstruct people from voting. If Walker is so worried about the lack of "energetic" poll workers, let him free up funds for localities to hire all their poll workers. (Like that will happen)

My daughter has 2 degrees from Marquette and estimates that half of the students there are from out of state.

--I wonder how many of them also did absentee ballots from their own state (many are from ILL.)

--Also, I find it very saddening that these out of staters vote here, and then leave after college, but leaving the residents here to live with the results. Voting for a presidential election may be OK in this scenerio, but not state/local candidates.

The voting laws need to be cleaned up to preserve the integrity. Same day registration with picture ID.

So, madhatter, what you are saying is you LIKE Wisconsin's same day voter registration just the way it is ... as currently a Wisconsin DL or ID is required (or SS) ... BTW, when someone lives in Wisconsin for several months. they become a resident and they cease to be a resident of their former residence, JUST LIKE ANYONE ... why do you find it "saddening" that these students are allowed to vote SOMEWHERE ... apparently you think that if a person goes to college in a different state then they should NOT BE ABLE TO VOTE ANYWHERE

"--Also, I find it very saddening that these out of staters vote here, and then leave after college"

This question has already been decided by the Federal Court and the US Supreme Court: students get to choose whether they want to vote 'at school' or 'at home'. The case is known as Symm vs United States.

@madhatter. Your name is apt. Congratulations for bringing new levels of paranoia to the "voter fraud" myth. Yes, all those college students are plotting voter fraud. LOL. Between studying, partying, and working part time to pay for tuition (and partying), I don't think they have much time left over to plot voter fraud. I, for one, congratulate them for registering and exercising their right to vote. It wasn't that many years ago the media lamented that few young people voted.

madhatter: There were 333,000 registered voters, ages 18 - 24 in November, 2012. This is out of 3.5 million so approximately 10%. No college students have been found to commit voter fraud, but rather the less than 20/year that are reported, are felons who have not had their civil rights restored.

We all get that Alberta Darling likes to use Media Trackers and the MacIver Insitute as her "references". I chose to use the Government Accountability Board, instead.

The Grand Old Party has long sought to limit voting. As far back as 1980 they have sought to curtail the electorate.

Co-founder of the Heritage Foundation, Moral Majority and various other groups tells his flock that he doesn't want people to vote.

If you can't win on ideas and ideals, rig the system in your favor.

This ain't my dad's GOP. We need them back. They had bold ideas and were relentless on environmental protections. This new crowd will bow down to anyone who "pretends" to be a "job creator" in order to enhance their wallet.

Hey Oneday,your ignorance is showing about poll workers. My staff shows up 45 minutes before the polls open to set up the machines ,sign ballots, put up the mandatory signage. My staff are all retired most are in their eighties or late seventies.When the polls close at 8pm the real work of tabulation of all the ballots starts.This will take 2 to 3 hours depending on the election. This means my staff has worked from 6.15 am to 10pm or latter. A sixteen hour day. Any thing that would make our work slightly less is a plus, like photo id or the ending of same day registration. I 'm for one very concerned about 19% of the vote comes from same day regestration. Where were this people for the other election? How informed are they about the issues in the election if they can not bother to sign-up to vote until election day?

Crankshaft- How would photo id shorten the time to find the voter's name on the list and have them sign the poll book? The poll site I have worked at did not have near the lengthy time to close up that you had. Perhaps the leadership at your site needs to be trained better.

Work is work, if "your staff" thought it too dificult I'm sure they would stop doing it because I know the pay isn't great. Every poling place that I have been to is staffed predominently by our elderly neighbors and all I've seen seem to enjoy it.

Voting is a right and should be easy. We should want everyone to be engaged, no matter how tough your day.

"Any thing that would make our work slightly less is a plus, like photo id or the ending of same day registration."

First, doing away with same-day registration would very likely result in a LARGE number of provisional ballots. And doing provisional paperwork takes as longer or longer than doing same-day paperwork.

Second, in anticipation of 'voter ID' being fully implemented, the Madison City Clerk's office did a 'mock election' using city employees and volunteers to simulate a polling place with full ID required. It took them an average of two minutes to process each voter through the line - getting out their ID, signing the boo, putting away ID, etc etc. During a 'big' election, the polling place where I work will process 1700 voters or more. Over the course of a full day, 1700 voters works out to about on per minute. Crank, if you have one voter walking in the door per minute, and it is taking you two minutes to process them at the table, you have a BIG problem, one that you and your workers are really not going to like.

Splitting the day is done some places; in Madison where I currently live, I work at the polls from 1 PM through 'closing'. When I lived in California, while splitting the day was allowed, it wasn't encouraged. But there do have to be some people who are there all day, if for not other reason than to simply be able to tell the PM people what 'went on' during the morning.

Um, so have two shifts. We will soon be required to work 40 or more hours a week until the age of 65. This isn't rocket science. If people can't handle the work, then give the job to someone who can. Pre-registration adds zero time to the workday when people complete it in another line, which is exactly what is done in well-managed polling locations. Maybe you should look at your failures as a manager of "your people."

Get Out People (GOP) and stop making the poll workers work?!?! Its ONE day. Its called WORK for a reason ! So stop trying to supress people votes ! ! Our Troops died defending the right for ALL people to vote not SOME !!!!

Tazzy must not know just how dumb they sound. No rights are being taken away. WI is one of only eight states that allow same day registration. All those other states including the democratic ones are suppressing voter rights? NO, those poeple are more responsible than you and your fake voters.

Walker and his party will enact the voter suppression laws they want in place.They will be challenged in court and will lose their case.Then all of you pro suppressinists will post your outrage at the liberal lefty socialist tool of a judge ewho renders the decision that its unconstitutional.The question that I have is how can any person who claims he is a loyal bleeds red. white and blue American justify trying to keep voters from the polls?

As with most of your kind, you completey miss the point and jump on your grand stand about how republicans are trying to suppress voter rights. Pathetic, and it's been done before. This is about voter fraud. How can we have record setting same day reigistration for the "waste of money recall" and agian, record setting same day registration in the same counties for the presidential election? Even you should think this doesn't make sense. The weren't record setting housing sales, or any other reason for not registering before the day. Dems bus votes in from Chicago, it's been known for a long time. Finally someone is doing something about it.